Word: onslaught
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...share of bruises lately. He was apparently so angered by the harsh criticisms he heard at the Central Committee plenum two weeks ago that he threatened to resign. Gorbachev has played this trump card on at least two other occasions to rally support. But this time the conservative onslaught was especially fierce, particularly from Alexander Melnikov, party boss from the Siberian city of Kemerovo, one of the sites of coal-mining strikes that swept the nation last July. In an article in the liberal weekly Moscow News, journalist Danil Granin, who was a guest at the plenum, expressed alarm that...
Although it's just 28 days long, February sees a relentless onslaught of game after game after game, including the big three matches against Penn, Princeton, and Yale...
JOHANNESBURG--Antiapartheid leaders Sunday announced a militant strategy of civil disobedience and political pressure and urged South African whites to join them for the "final onslaught on apartheid...
...firm basis was established for the political direction of all antiapartheid forces well into the 1990s, the decade of the final onslaught against apartheid," he said...
...Crimson has a chance to practice, prepare and improve for January's USSRA team championships and the relentless onslaught of challenging matches in February. The trend so far looks good...